> I think you are right: there are very few end users running with> CONFIG_NUMA on normal x86. But, there is a disproportionately large> number of developers who do it. There are quite a few IBM (and maybe> more via OSDL) developers who's only access to real NUMA hardware is x86> NUMAQs and Summit machines. When somebody says "foo is broken on NUMA",> I go right to an x86 box.> Anyway, I'd like to think that we've contributed enough to the generic> NUMA code to have earned our keep and allow our little x86 NUMA "hacks"> to remain.

Yes that is why i did the "only work on Summit" patch as compromise.With that you can have your hacks, but it won't impact anybody else.

> x86 is a legacy architecture now anyway, right? ;)I wish everybody would agree on that @)